You have a design degree, but can you design?
You have a design degree, but can you design?
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Along the lines what tOki just wrote, I feel that a design degree does add value beyond being self-taught and naturally talented. Knowing the history and learning from industry leaders really helps one's design knowledge and how to apply it to current predicaments. In order to execute a visual strategy to create a "look," one must rely on the visual cues that various cultures respond to. Yes, one can be aware of these, but school definitely helped put them into context and history. Armed with this kind of knowledge, most easy learned in design school, a designer should technically be better in his ability to create a strategy and execute on it. Just my opinion.
- Agreed, but what I was more hinting at is that it depends on the person as to how much and what kind of benefit is receievedtOki